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Advanced Coal Technologies Improve Emissions and Efficiency

December 3, 2018

New coal-fired generating plants are not showing up in the U.S. Elderly plants are retiring in large numbers. But other parts of the world continue to develop coal generation. Advances in combustion and emissions cleanup are part of the reason.

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Retired Kemmerer Coal Mine Workers Plead for Pensions in Company Bankruptcy

December 3, 2018

Perry Norris, 65, worked at the Kemmerer coal mine for 40 years. For four decades he worked three shift rotations. He broke an elbow at the mine in southern Wyoming, broke his back and picked up a persistent cough from

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Coal Miners Urge Congress Extension of Black Lung Funding

December 3, 2018

Former Appalachian coal miners and supporters are in Washington this week to urge lawmakers to extend a tax that benefits miners sick with black lung disease. The excise tax paid by coal companies funds the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund,

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Liberty Gold Completes Upgraded Plan of Operations at Its Goldstrike Project, Utah

November 30, 2018

Liberty Gold Corp. has received a significant amendment to its plan of operations at the Goldstrike Project, the flagship of its three principal gold projects located in the prolific Great Basin of the United States. Located in southwestern Utah, Goldstrike

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Dunnedin Acquires MPD Copper Gold Porphyry Project, British Columbia

November 30, 2018

Dunnedin Ventures Inc. has entered into a purchase agreement to acquire 100 percent ownership of the consolidated Man, Prime, and Dillard properties, the MPD Project, in south-central British Columbia. The MPD Project is an excellent strategic fit with Dunnedin’s 100

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Goldcorp Achieves First Gold at Pyrite Leach Project, Mexico

November 30, 2018

First gold has been achieved at Goldcorp’s Peñasquito Pyrite Leach Project (PLP). Commissioning commenced in the third quarter of 2018 and the PLP is now processing 100 percent of the existing plant tailings. The PLP plant is operating 24 hours

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NexGen Energy Receives PDAC’s 2019 Environmental and Social Responsibility Award

November 30, 2018

NexGen Energy Ltd. is the recipient of the 2019 Environmental & Social Responsibility Award given by the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), the leading voice of the mineral exploration and development community. The PDAC Environmental & Social Responsibility

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Tacora Resources to Reopen Its Scully Iron Ore Mine, Canada

November 29, 2018

Officials from a Rapids-based mining company said it has secured enough financing to reopen its mine in Canada. Tacora Resources said in a news release Tuesday that it had closed on $212 million in private equity and senior secured debt

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Pitt Researchers Study Benefits of Co-Treating Acid Mine Drainage and Shale Gas Wastewater, Pa.

November 29, 2018

Pennsylvania’s energy history is rich with the quantities of fossil fuels that it has produced, but is also rife with the environmental legacies of coal mining and, more recently, hydrofracturing. Water that finds its way into abandoned coal mines dotted

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Northern Dynasty Finalizes Right-of-Way Agreement for Pebble Project, Alaska

November 28, 2018

Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. said the Pebble Limited Partnership has finalized a Right-of-Way agreement with Alaska Peninsula Corporation (APC), securing the right to use defined portions of APC lands for the construction and operation of transportation infrastructure associated with the

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